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FOI: DCENR to confirm or deny record of payments to enet.

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  • 05-12-2015 3:36pm
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    clohamon
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    Interesting FOI decision from the OIC in response to a request to DCENR from Gavin Sheridan.

    The requests at issue were:
    "an itemised record of any and all individual payments made to MAN provider enet in 2014, 2013 and 2012 (third record)"
    Decision:
    I direct the Department to confirm or deny the existence of the third record and if the third record exists, to decide whether to grant access to it.

    and..
    "any contracts from 2009 between the Department and enet in relation to the provision of broadband services via Metropolitan Area Networks (fourth record)"
    Decision:
    I annul the decision in respect of the fourth record and direct its release (with the exception of paragraphs 2.1 - 2.3.4 of schedule 4; schedule 16; and schedule 21 to the fourth record).


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    clohamon
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    The Department (DCENR) are not happy it seems.


    https://twitter.com/gavinsblog/status/686316803786698753

    Sunday Business Post (paywall)
    The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources is seeking a High Court review of a decision by the Information Commissioner to order the release under the Freedom of Information Act of a contract between it and e-Nasc Eireann Teoranta (Enet), the operator of the state’s broadband Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs).

    In proceedings initiated just before Christmas, Minister Alex White’s department contended that the Information Commissioner Peter Tyndall had erred in law by ordering the release of a redacted version of the contract following a request and appeal by journalist Gavin Sheridan.


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